NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP)  Columbia University will offer a new course for upperclassmen and grad students next semester. An Occupy Wall Street class will send students into the field and will be taught by Dr. Hannah Appel, a veteran of the Occupy movement.

The course begins next semester and will be divided between class work at Columbias Morningside Heights campus and fieldwork that will require students to become involved with the Occupy movement outside of the classroom.

The course will be called Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement it will be run by the anthropology department.

Appel is a staunch defender of the Occupy movement, in her blog she said that, it is important to push back against the rhetoric of disorganization or a movement without a message coming from left, right and center.

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